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I'm also wondering the same thing. I never have cycles or ovulate my chances are like 0%, but it doesn't seem like meds like Clomid or Metformin are helping me get any closer to pregnancy. Clomid made me ovulate twice, but no pregnancy. Metformin made me vomit every single day I was on it so I had to stop it.

I've officially resigned myself to the fact that I'll probably never get pregnant without IVF which I won't be able to afford for another 10 years.

Good luck on your journey. I'm sure there are ways to get pregnant naturally with PCOS.

Ok well first I must say I did get preg using clomid BUT..... here's what happened: my DH and i had tried to get preg for a year and a half (I was only 24 when we started) it wasn't working so I charted and took OPK's and I was ALL OVER the map! So the doc put me on clomid. After two months it didn't work and I was tired of everything so we called it quits. A few months later life calmed down and we decided to try using clomid again. Used it once and BAM! I was preg! So I guess what I'm trying to say is, I think my body needed a break from the meds because they weren't doing any good but by taking a break it helped my body jump on board the next time we were ready. Does that make sense? I'm not saying give up trying I guess I'm saying quit the meds for a couple months and try on your own and then maybe go back tothe meds if you are ready. I hope that all makes sense.

I don't think metformin is considered a fertility drug. Just for my story, I was 325 lbs with undiagnosed PCOS and lOst 30ish lbs and got pregnant. Sadly I miscarried, I was then diagnosed with PCOS and started metformin. I was on it about a month and conceived. I'm 21 weeks pregnant with a little girl, and so excited! Still on the metformin, I dunno what did it, but I'm pretty sure it was the met!

My baby boy is 9 weeks today. 8 years of not being able to conceive then after 4 mons of being on metformin and losing 40 lbs, DH and I got pregnant less than a month after he got back from his deployment. I stayed on metformin for 6 months during pregnancy (because I heard it helps with miscarriages). Our baby boy was born May 30th, 2011. We never thought we'd ever have a baby and here we are celebrating our little miracle!

My cycle had finnaly come back after 5 months. The following month was when i was getting into TTC, so o bought opks and hpts for the very first time. I used opks here and there, and never saw a positive. Seriosuly thought they were crappy... But i still used them. One day I got bored, so I used both opks and hpts.. I didn't pay attn to my opk, but my hpt had a faint pink line on it!!

The next day i got a beta. Hcg was 23. Low.....over the next few days I lost the baby.

So here is the thing.. do u O? Or have any slight normal cycle? For me, I would go without cyles for a few months and then it comes back and I'm regular for a few more months before my cycles disappear again.

If u have normal cycles, then you can track o by charting and using opks, and possibly get pregnant.

Another thing u should know.. those with PCOS has hormonal discrepancies, that is why we need help in Oing at times. Also, we may need help in another department: progesterone. Often times our p4 levels are low. If any pregnancy were to occur, u will need some type of medicine to help sustain the pregnancy, or else u will lose the baby like i did. At the time, I didnt know I had PCOS, or low p4..if i did, I would've celebrated my baby's 1month birthday already.

Having babies when u have PCOS is possible, but very hard. U don't need to go the clomid route, but u will need to take something to help u O and also to help sustain a pregnancy. Charting and opks will be helpful for u to learn ur cycles, but it is unreliable bc those with PCOS have wonky cycles.

With my first child we did the Clomid and hcg trigger 3 times to get pregnant. We had just started talking a few weeks ago about trying to have another and I made an appointment for next week with my RE to see about starting treatments again. I also started charting in the meantime and TTC this cycle and I noticed that I did ovulate this month and yesterday, at 8dpo, I got a faint BFP! All on my own! =) So yes, it is possible for some people, but I also want to note that I have not been having regular, ovulating cycles this whole time, they have been all over the place and I am pretty sure this is the first time I've ovulated in the past 16 months, so I think we just got very lucky!

I would highly recommend Femara (Letrozole). It is similar to Clomid in how it works, except it doesn't mess up your cervical mucus and endometrial lining like Clomid can. Also, many people are not receptive to Clomid. I got pregnant on my 3rd cycle of Femara last fall (although I ovulated every cycle on it), unfortunately I lost my little boy at 18.5wks due to Incompetent Cervix in April. I am going to start Femara again this next cycle once I AF finally shows up! Good luck to you!

Also, I mentioned this is the Natural PCOS Remedies thread (you should also look into it), but I had a friend get pregnant on her 2nd cycle of taking Vitex (chasteberry). I don't know all the specifics, but supposedly it also works to regulate your hormones and cycles. I know there's a lot of info on it on the web, so that would be something else to look into.

Thanks for all the insight.Congratulations to all of you who have conceived!And I am also so sorry to hear about those who miscarried.I know this condition puts at us an increased rate, I just couldn't imagine going through that- you are strong ladies.

After doing some more investigation it seems like people have different degrees have PCOS.Kind of an annoying thing to say the least.

I have suspected I have had this disorder since I hit puberty.When I first got my period they were supper irregular and long, after about 1.5 years my I went to thy gyno , who put me on birth control, which evened things out perfectly for my cycle, but I have always battled with unwanted hair growth.Fast forward to now- 15 years later- & I want to have kids and no big surprise docs say my hormone levels are indicative to PCOS...

I want to try and see if I can conceive naturally, but I'm also afraid being off bc, that PCOS is going to rear its ugly head and I'm going to get a bunch of cysts on my ovaries & IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll gain weight.Since going off BC I have had acne, hair loss (which seems to be growing back now), and only 1 period in the last 7 months.Has this happened to anyone after going off BC?